California man offers truck, kidney to anyone who can help save dying wife

Fox ^ | 9 May 2018 | Kaitlyn Schallhorn

[DUMBGRUNT]

In a plea to Facebook users last week, Verlon Robinson offered to give up his 2004 Dodge pickup truck and a tent trailer to anyone who would be willing to donate a piece of their liver to his sick wife. In the post, he added a postscript and said he has “good kidneys” and would also be willing to “throw in one.”

...So Verlon Robinson is taking matters into his own hands. He has asked that anyone who has O-positive or O-negative blood type to apply to the UCSF Medical Center to see if they could qualify to donate a piece of their liver to his wife. His insurance would cover the procedure, he said.

[GnuThere]

How very sad. Doesn’t hurt to ask!

[Kickass Conservative]

I’ll assume that if POTUS Trump doesn’t volunteer the DNC will want him Impeached.

[Still Thinking]

Must be a good cook — 04’s Ram’s a nice truck! ;)

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

I’m b neg

[Still Thinking]

Many people be negative these days!

[Kartographer]

"I’ll assume that if POTUS Trump doesn’t volunteer the DNC will want him Impeached."

HELL YES! Don't you know its Trumps fault the guys wife's liver is bad in the first place! An then to make matters worse O isn't President any more so he can't lay on his hands and read from the book of Obama Care over her!

[Puppage]

Real love knows no bounds.

[madison10]

Wish I could help.

[BlessedBeGod]

[Kartographer]

“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh” (Mark 10:6–8).

“In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church” (Ephesians 5:28–29).

[McGavin999]

Father please watch over this good man and if it fits Your plan please find a match for his wife that will help her ti extend her life.

[PAR35]

Washed up alcoholic ex-baseball players move to the head of the line for livers. Even if they aren’t medically qualified.

That was enough to show me how corrupt the whole donor - recipient system is in this country.

[wally_bert]

Anything for a ballplayer it seems.

The lesser beings need not bother.

[Boomer]

Yeah; the only problem is it's a federal crime to pay anyone for body parts for transplantation. They have to be donated out of the good will of the person donating.

Under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA), any individual convicted of buying or selling human organs faces a five-year prison sentence and/or a hefty fine. Since the language of the law explicitly states that it is a crime for an individual to "knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer" a human organ, it allows safe harbor for those who unknowingly receive an illegally procured organ.

But, while you may not profit from donating an organ, you may have some of your expenses related to the donation procedure reimbursed. For example, you may claim medical costs and missed pay following the donation of an organ. Different states calculate such payments differently, but anything considered to be unreasonable will not be reimbursed. Specifically, the law states, payment of "expenses of travel, housing, and lost wages incurred by the donor of a human organ in connection with the donation of the organ" is permitted.

[DIRTYSECRET]

How did David Crosby, a junkie go to the head of the line?